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Balsamic Bacon & Tomato Pasta

This hearty pasta dinner is loaded with bacon and tomatoes. Add some caramelized onions and a tangy balsamic sauce and you have a gourmet dinner on the double!

Gourmet Pasta On The Double

Here’s an all-season pasta dinner! It can be a cold salad too!

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Balsamic Tomato and Bacon Pasta is a very versatile. Served hot, it’s a dinner, but serve it cold and it’s a delicious pasta salad.

Caramelized Onions

This pasta dish gets a lot of flavor from caramelized onions.

You can make them when you cook this, but it does add about 30 minutes to the cook time.

A much better plan is to have caramelized onions on hand in your freezer then just defrost them as you need them.

An excellent and very easy way to prepare caramelized onions in advance is to make them in your slow cooker. You can cook them in bulk and the best thing about the slow cooker method is the onions require no babysitting. Any time onions are on sale, I buy a few pounds and make my Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions and freeze them in 1/4-cup portions.

A Dish For All Seasons

As I mentioned before, this is a versatile recipe. You can change how you serve it by the season.

In cooler weather, it’s a hearty and tasty hot meal, but in the summer, serve it chilled as a pasta salad!

This recipe is pretty basic as far as ingredients, so it lends itself to additions that suit your taste. I’d say stay with the basic tomatoes and bacon as a base. You can add some cooked chicken in the mix to make the pasta more substantial or add other veggie you like. I’d also add some cucumber if I was making this chilled because that’d add a nice crunch to the texture.

Let your imagination run wild here! It can be different each time you make it!